And as I dreamed,
my skin dissolved
and I expanded,
spread outward,
a being of refracted light
surrounded by beings of refracted light,
no longer divided entities
but all part of a greater,
    glittering,
    interconnected whole.

I knew my separate self
as illusion,
and this wondrous, webbed oneness
    as life,
    liberation,
    love.

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